Orestes

Death in Sardinia takes place in Florence in 1965. The book starts out with a visit to the hospital, where Inspector Bordelli is visiting a dear old colleague. Sergeant Oreste Baragli, who at sixty is only five years Bordelli’s senior, is dying of stomach cancer. Bordelli offers his friendship to Baragli, playing cards, asking him of his family, and filling him in on the latest news. When Baragli asks for updates from the police station, we are introduced to Pietrino Piras, another colleague of…

The Divine Sacrifice Although it is believed that ancient Greeks did not practice human sacrifice, the concept itself occupied a large space of Greek drama, which raises questions about its meaning(s), function(s), and how it has contributed to the human-deity relationship in Greek Drama. Human sacrifice, as a thematic frame, is common within the works of the three Greek tragedians, who employ it as a mean to create a dilemma in their plays, add a layer of meaningful depth to the human death…

Collin Simpson June 21, 2016 Greek Final Part Two Professor M. Demos When a book is adapted into a film, it usually goes one of two ways. The first is that the film closely follows the source material, with a few minor variations. The second option is that the film takes a far different route from the book, with sometimes so many changes that it is almost unrecognizable from the original source material. The tragic Greek play, Iphigenia in Aulis, written by the playwright Euripides, when…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up. (Thoreau, 1966, p. 84) 1.1 Background of the study Transcendentalism flourished in New England as a philosophical, religious and literary movement in the early middle of the nineteenth century. Transcendentalism was an American movement in that it corresponded to the beliefs of American individualism.…